For three whole days, countless people were looking forward to it every day, but all they waited for was disappointment.

The government put up a notice to reassure the people, so that the people did not need to panic, and promised that they would re-supply sufficient grain at a low price within a month.

In fact, the people still believe in appeasing the Yamen, after all, during this period of time, the government did really take out more than 2 million stone of grain, even if it was sold at a high price, but most of the people did not buy it for themselves, and it was not a loss, but they could earn an "errand food".

Thinking that there was still a little food at home, which could still be barely supported in a month or two, the people had no choice but to wait with peace of mind. Chinese Net

Xie Tang didn't agree, and they couldn't wait for a month, so some rumors that were both true and false quietly spread among the people.

"Have you heard, there is no food to sell in Wujiang County these days!"

"No, isn't King Yan still in Wujiang?"

"It seems that he is long gone, and it is said that I haven't seen him for at least half a month, so I may have returned to Lin'an."

"Gone? Does he not care if we live or die?"

"Huh...... They are His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, where can they really take our grass and other people to heart!?"

"But didn't he take so much cheap grain and sell it to us before?"

"Parity!? Do you dare to say that it is cheap? And you see, since King Yan sold grain, has the price of grain in the city dropped in the slightest?"

People's hearts are always changeable, when there was grain for sale, compared to the price of grain on the market, most people understood the price sold by Yanwang, but now there is no grain to sell, and some people have begun to question this price.

"It's really strange, why would those grain merchants prefer not to do business than to lower the price of grain a little?"

"Because, the grain merchants all know that the food shortage in our Pingjiang Mansion is no longer helped, and they guard the grain and don't worry about selling it at all!"

"Hehe, let me tell you a secret, don't say anything outside, in fact, King Yan didn't sell grain before to stabilize the price of grain, he just wanted to make a fortune with three times the usual price of grain!"

"Huh? What do you mean by that?"

"Where do you think King Yan's food came from? Bought from somewhere else at a high price? Fart! In fact, those grains were originally the grains of Changping and Guancang, but they were brought out by the former prefect Liu Xiuren early, and Liu Xiuren just acted according to orders, hehe, knowing that the Liu family is good, why did he suddenly rebel? …… All of this is just a trick to kill people, don't ask me who kills people and kills mouths, I want to go!"

"Alas, I also heard one thing, that is, the water of this Taihu Lake this year will not rise in the first place, it was ordered by King Yan to open the gates, so it will flood so many places......

"If you think about it carefully, it seems that this is really the case, you see, Anji Prefecture and Changzhou are on the same shore of Taihu Lake, and they suffered disasters with us last year, but this year there is nothing at all."

"What do you mean by saying that this flood in our Pingjiang Mansion is actually not a natural disaster, but a man-made disaster, which was deliberately caused by King Yan?"

"Huh, huh! I didn't say that, I just told the truth, what the hell was going on, and everyone figured it out!"

"I have a relative of Lin'an, he told me that King Yan used to be stupid, and then since the second day of February, he suddenly changed as a person, and some people who have attained the Tao say that it is a black Jiao in Taihu Lake who failed to turn into a dragon and gave it away, and everyone in Lin'an knows about it."

"This thing should be true, otherwise how can anyone who is not afraid of thunder......

"Some time ago, King Yan ordered the Taihu Lake to be blocked, especially Dongting Dongshan, and no one should enter it, just to build the Shenglong Platform there, and if he wanted to turn into a dragon and fly into the sky again, the money and grain used were scavenged by selling grain at a high price."

"It is said that in order to make money, this King Yan even took out the military rations of Jiankang Mansion and the grain that should have been transported to Lin'an, and sold them all without regard to it.

"There's a wandering sky

The next high monk said that if Heijiao wants to turn into a dragon again, he must sacrifice 99.81 million lives, and he can't say it, then King Yan is planning to starve all the people in our Gusu City to death!"

"This, it seems that there is really this possibility, otherwise why would we have to transfer more than 100,000 troops from other places when Pingjiang was short of food, plus their families, this would be nearly a million mouths more at once, and what they ate was originally our food."

With the full help of some people, all kinds of rumors, true and false, are told with noses and eyes, which makes people think about it and panic.

Gusu City was shrouded in fear, the undercurrent was surging everywhere, and some timid people planned to flee, but found that the city gate was blocked, and they were not allowed to enter or exit, which made the atmosphere in the city more and more tense, and gradually on the verge of violence. The edge of chaos.

More and more shops are closing, workshops are closed, houses are closed, there are few people walking around the streets, and the whole city seems to be in dead silence.

Xie Tang, the initiators, were celebrating each other at this time, so they were singing and dancing.

Xu Xueqian laughed wantonly, "Haha, in vain, Wu Qian is still a person who has been the prime minister, but now he only dares to shrink in the sub-city, and he can't come up with the slightest solution to the situation in the city, he is really a mediocre talent!"

Lu Wencai swallowed the wine, shook his head and said, "It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and she can't get food, what can you let him do?" But the strange thing is that this Yan King is actually silent, is he breaking the jar and falling, or is he holding back some big move?"

"Hehe, maybe he is still unwilling to admit defeat and can't let go, after all, he is still a young man, but if he continues to move, then don't blame us for not being considerate...... Tomorrow, add more fire and make some real mess out, I don't believe that he can still sit still!?"

Xie Tang has the chance to win, and he has already imagined how to handle this imperial crown prince.

At this moment, the concierge of the Xie family sent a plain invitation, and Xie Tang unfolded the invitation with doubts, and there was no letterhead written on it, only a simple line of words.

"On the ninth day of the first month, meet at the Temple of Literature, be sure to appreciate the light."

Signed, "Zhao Yu".

The whole hall looked at Xie Tang, and Lu Wencai asked even more tentatively, "Envoy, who is the invite?"

"It's our Royal Highness King Yan." Xie Tang said slowly.

"Oh?" Lu Wencai was overjoyed, "Did he succumb? Are you going to negotiate with us?"

"It should be." Xie Tang said, but there was still confusion between his eyebrows, "What's strange is that why did you make an appointment at the Temple of Literature?"

"Well, perhaps, he felt that it was too expensive to come to the door in person, but he wanted to express the sincerity of the peace talks, so he chose the Temple of Literature next door to keep a little dignity for himself?" Lu Wencai guessed.

Xie Tang thought for a moment, then nodded, "It's possible...... Oh, we have a lot of adults, so give him this little face and fulfill his last stubbornness."

But at this time, the people of the Lu family also sent the same invitation, and then, one after another, other heroes here received the same invitation, including Xu Xueqian and the local tyrants of Jiaxing Mansion.

For a while, everyone looked at the invitation card in their hands and fell into confusion, and the female singer in the hall also felt the abnormality of the atmosphere, and couldn't help but stop singing and dancing.

After a long time, Xu Xueqian couldn't help but say, "What does this mean? Does that mean that all of us are in the hands of King Yan?"

Xie Tang thought thoughtfully, "It's not a big deal, we haven't done too much evasion in our dealings, and it's not ......difficult to find out if you have the heart to find out."

said so, but he still had a hidden worry in his heart, but in order not to affect his morale, he just endured it.

"The ninth day of the first month? That's tomorrow, if he wants to talk about peace, he shouldn't need to find all of us, right, this is a Hongmen banquet, he wants to take the opportunity to wipe us out!?" Lu Wencai said worriedly.

"No, it won't." Xie Tang shook his head and laughed, "If he wants to be rude, why bother to do it, just seal the city and take people, what's more, even if he arrests us, what's the use?" Could it be that he wanted to make peace

Shall we all die together, and by the way, take dozens or millions of lives?"

Xu Xueqian's face was calm, "Then what does he want to do?"

"Why do you have to think so much, let's go tomorrow as promised, and everyone will see with their own eyes, His Royal Highness King Yan, what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd."

Xie Tang was highly motivated, firmly believing that Zhao Mengqi could not escape from his Five Finger Mountain.

It's just that what he didn't expect was that the pacification division not only posted a notice later, but also announced it all over the city with great fanfare.

"His Royal Highness King Yan will come to Gusu City in person to completely solve the food shortage!"

After the people heard the news, they knew that King Yan had not left them alone, so they all had hope in their hearts, and the influence of this rumor was naturally relatively weakened.

After all, in the Zhao and Song dynasties for nearly three hundred years, the awe and trust in imperial power have been buried deep in the bones of ordinary people.

Of course, if Yan Wang can't deliver on his promise in the end, it's another story, or an accident......

On the ninth day of the seventh month, the sun just fell on the head of Gusu City, and the whole city woke up.

After drinking a few mouthfuls of gruel in a hurry, many people dragged their families out of the door, wanting to go to Panmen to wait for King Yan to enter the city, so as to see with their own eyes what the next official family would look like.

But when they turned from the alley to the street, they found that the street was densely packed with people, rubbing shoulders, and everyone was moving in the same direction, but it was still difficult to move an inch.

Some of them wanted to use boats to cross the river, but they were told by the officials and the forbidden army that most of the main waterways in the city were under martial law and were not allowed to pass for the time being.